Eloise Quiñones Keber (d. 2023) was Professor Emeritus of Art History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she specialized in Pre-Columbian and early colonial Latin American art.
[1] She published a scholarly edition of the important Aztec pictorial Codex Telleriano-Remensis, with commentary,[2] which received the 1996 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for humanistic studies from the Phi Beta Kappa society.
She received the 1996 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in humanistic studies from the Phi Beta Kappa society for Codex Telleriano Remensis and the 1996 Distinguished Scholarship Award from Baruch College, where she also teaches.
Prof. Quiñones-Keber’s research interests centered primarily on Mesoamerican manuscripts, Aztec art before and after the Spanish conquest, and issues surrounding the encounter between indigenous and European traditions in the Americas.
Most recently, she was working on a book on “reinventing Aztec art”, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998-1999.